On the non-vanishing of the central value of certain L-functions: unitary groups

DOI10.4171/JEMS/955MaRDI QIDQ2178264zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lei Zhang, Dihua Jiang

Publication date 7 May 2020

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04340

zbMATH Keywords

automorphic \(L\)-functionsBessel periods and automorphic descentscentral valuesendoscopic classification of discrete spectrumFourier coefficients of automorphic formsunitary groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms (11F30) Langlands (L)-functions; one variable Dirichlet series and functional equations (11F66) Special values of automorphic (L)-series, periods of automorphic forms, cohomology, modular symbols (11F67) Representation-theoretic methods; automorphic representations over local and global fields (11F70) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over global fields and adèle rings (22E55)

Abstract: Let $pi$ be an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of a quasi-split unitary group ${mU}_{mathfrakn}$ defined over a number field $F$. Under the assumption that $pi$ has a generic global Arthur parameter, we establish the non-vanishing of the central value of $L$-functions, $L(frac12,piimeschi)$, with a certain automorphic character $chi$ of ${mU}_1$, for the case of $mathfrakn=2,3,4$, and for the general $mathfrakngeq5$ by assuming a conjecture on certain refined properties of global Arthur packets. In consequence, we obtain some simultaneous non-vanishing results for the central $L$-values by means of the theory of endoscopy.

Review text

Let \(F\) be a number field, \(\mathbb A\) the adeles of \(F\), and \(G^*_n\) an \(F\)-quasisplit unitary group that is either \(U_{n,n}\) or \(U_{n+1,n}\). In the paper under review, the authors consider the central \(L\)-value \(L(1/2,\pi\times \chi)\), where \(\pi\) is an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of \(G^*_n(\mathbb A)\), and \(\chi\) is an automorphic character of the unitary group \(U_1\). They pose the following basic conjecture (Conjecture 1.1 in the paper): ``For any given generic global Arthur parameter \(\phi\) of \(G^*_n\), there exists an automorphic character \(\chi\) of \(U_1\) such that for every automorphic member \(\pi_0\) in the global Arthur packet \(\widetilde{\Pi}_{\phi}(G^*_n)\) associated to \(\phi\), the central value \(L(1/2,\pi\times \chi)\) [\dots] is non-zero. This conjecture is proved in the present paper in the case where \(G_n \in \{U_1,U_{2,1},U_{2,2}\}\). The authors also formulate an auxiliary conjecture, which amounts to existence of an automorphic member \(\pi_0\) in the same Arthur packet as \(\pi\) having a non-zero Fourier coefficient of a suitable form, and prove that this conjecture implies Conjecture 1.1 for all \(F\)-quasisplit unitary groups. As two main ingredients, the authors use (one direction of) the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture proved in [the authors, Ann. Math. (2) 191, No. 3, 739--827 (2020; Zbl 1443.11084)], and also the endoscopic classification of representations of quasisplit unitary groups [\textit{C. P. Mok}, Endoscopic classification of representations of quasi-split unitary groups. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2015; Zbl 1316.22018)].

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